River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-07

history. He was saved from ruin by the
friendly offices of Jay Gould who took
Sl0,OO0,OOO off his hands, being $1,000 shares
OF stock az about Sl;2S. When Field got in
to his ''hole" he had run Manhattan up TO
Si.95. Field now retires from financial
leadership, and is said to have saved some
thing over 100000, which he will try to
take care OF.
a strike is threatened at the Fort
Wayne railroad shops in Allegheny City,
Pa, which Is likely to throw out of employ
ment between 400 and 500 men. The trouble
is caused by a new style of box ear, ON
which there is almost twice as much work
as on the ordinary cars. The men refuse 10
work on them unless their wages are ad-
vanced, and sixteen carpenters quit work.
Sympathy for the strikers is very strong in
the other departments, and unle IS there is a
settlement general strike is probable.
Guilty. as charged in the indict-
ment," said the jury in the Jake Sharpe
case at New York ON the 18th, which was
the thirty Fourth day of the celebrated trial
of the chief of the Broadway surface r. r,
bribers. Owing TO Sharpe's physical state
he did not testify, but there is no probable
ity that tact was to his prejudice. The jury
reached q verdict thirteen minutes after re-
firing. Sharpe will be sentenced July IL,
should he live so long, and will probably be
fined only.
A report is current at New York that
Cyrus w. Field, in addition to his holding
of 70,00O shares of Manhattan elevated stock,
has also disposed of his interest in Western
Union 20 Jay Gould ID. Ii. Bates, president
and general manager of the Baltimore a
| Ohio Telegraph company, declares there Is
no truth in the rumOrs that the Baltimore
| a Ohio lines have been sold to the Western
| Union.
At New York July 3, Thos. Reilly and
Mike McGarran, living in the same house. had
quarrel and Reilly got the worst of it. At
midnight, Reilly, who was drunk entered
| the room where Mrs McCiarran was in bed
with a babe and hurled lighted lamp at
her, which exploded and set the bed clothes
on fire and the baby was burned to death.
Jake Sharp, the conspicuous defend
ant in the Broadway bribery trial at New
| York, was pronounced dying ON the 2Sth.
/ His physicians said he would not live ten
/ days if so long. He was called to take the
| witness stand when it was found that he
was a mental wreck as well as physical.
The trial was interrupted by this episode.
At the Vulcan mine, Norway. Mich,
four men were instantly killed ON the 2Sth.
They were coming out of the mine in a cage.
| Some men above allowed the tram car to
get away and go down the shaft and strike
the cage. One OF the men killed was single,
| aged eighteen. The others leave widows
and large families
Ii is rumored that James A. Rich
mond, Jacob Sharp's right hand man, will
not return to New York for trial. Rich
mond went 10 Hot Springs some time ago
but now cannot be found either there or III
any part of the West. RichmOnd's counsel,
however, deny that he has fed.
The large toy store Of p. j. Keary
Il Bro, took fire Saturday evening and the
fire works it contained exploded producing
destructive havoc. Two clerks were unable
to get out and were burned in the building.
Loss $4,000; insurance nominal.
New Hampshire and Vermont were
considerably shaken up by earthquake
vibrations June 30, but no assures We're
| created and no damage done beyond stop
ping clocks and breaking crOckery. The
vibrations continued for 80 seconds.
The Secretary of the Navy has in
vitei proposals for three heavy, six inch,
breechloading, riled cannon, capable of dis
charging prOJectiles weighing 100 pounds,
each with muzzle velocity OF not less than
1000 feet per second.
Thirteen rioters are now under
. j
be jailed. They are all Mecklenburgers,
Bohemian and Italians. The strike is con
fined wholly to laboreTs of these national
| tiles.
The three large cotton mills at
Meanwhile, X. T., have shut down indefinite
ly on account of the weavers strike and
the mill officials have notified all former
employees to quit the company's tenements.
At Tonawonda. Pa. July 2. Rody
Moe an auctioneer, was shot through the
heart 10y r r. Lyons, who instantly COM
mitted suicide. Both were slightly intON-
icated and had a difference about money.
July , and 3 were very hot days in
the east On the 22nd there were thirty
| cases Of sun stroke in Now York and yicin-
/ ity, six of which proved fatal There We're
| five fatal cases at Pittsburg, Pa, July 3.
The wholesale stores of Ball a Co,
clothing Vanderhoof & Co, straw goods
/ on Broadway New York city were burned
Saturday night. Loss $1,000.
On the 2sth. I'm explosion in Latin &
Rand powder mill. at Wayne, n. }. killed
three men and did damage to the extent of
$1,000.
Luke t. Poland, an EX-State Judge
and congressman, died at Wateryille,
Vermont, July 2, aged y years
Mrs. Hamilton Fish, wife of President
Grants Secretary of State died at New
York, June 30.